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port!aod Oregon, VOL. XLIIL NO. 13,216. -PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ill CRACK-PROOF QQLf) B sure that the heels are stamped "Union India, Rubber Company Crack Proof. New York," am that our. Gold Seal stamp appears on tns lag. BEWARE OP IMITATIONS. Manufactured Onlr by GOODYEAR RUBBER CO., It. li. PEASE, President. Last of the Bargains! old style and aecond-hand cam era a. Sen our -window. 4i3 HOVTJUIKS, reiralar lc-.' P"'1 4x5 MOXTAUCS, regular 20., special 43 MOmCKS, refirulir 28.O0. -special x5 IMPERIALS, re-ralnr 14.00, special BLUMAUER-FRANK DRUG CO. rKOTO DEPARTMEST, 14Z FOURTH STREET. SHAW'S PURE BLUMAUER & HOCH 108 and 110 Fourth Street Sola Distributers lor Oregon and Washington. J. jr. XJAVXES. Fra. St. Charles Hotel CO. OKCORFORAIBD). FRONT AND MORRISON STREETS PORTLAND, OREGON European Plan Rooms 30c to 51.30 First-Class Restaurant In Connection HOTEL PERKINS Fifth and Washington Streets EUROPEAN PLAN jrtrwt-Claaa. 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Differences arose which caused bin to leave that church and join the Christians, last Fall he was connected with the Illinois Anti-Saloon League and with that organization he had trouble. He is considered a forceful preacher, and built up tho church at Anna during the three months' pastorate. Entertainment of B'nal B'rlth. Portland Lodge, Independent Order B'nal B'rlth. and the Young People's Cul ture Union give one of their regular en tertainments and lectures this evening In the Selllng-Hlrscn building. t SEAL M,N,NG B00TS aUl I ... I .itrWTftjfiK, au;g Send Ordersto Portland, Oregon. 7.00 ?12-SO f T.OO Stock of 1903 models arrive this week.- . Watch announcement America's ORIGINAL MALT WHISKY Without a Rival Today MALT J. W. BT.iTK. 60. sad Trass. PORTLAND, OREGON -.TJoubl . .. J1.G0 to fS.00 per day ...Sl-iC to iaoo Mr Ur PRODUCTS ik -STEEL THE WORKS I ESMOND HOTEL CSUB MDEBSOK. Mtru. Front and Morrison Streets, PORTLAND - OREGON TREE. 'BUS TO AND FROM JUL TRAIN &. Rates European plan. SOo, Sc. ft 00. JLSO. tJ-00 ptr day. Sample rooms In connection. ALL ON US - . - . kl-,r Front and VII VVUIIXS Hall Streets DECLARED A BANKRUPT. Henry Hermnnn Left Affairs In Mil vrankee Badly Mixed. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Anrll 29. Proceed lngs were Instituted In the Federal and Etate Courts today against Henry Her mann, the missing capitalist and pro moter. Before Judge Seamen, of the United States Court, a Million to declare him an Involuntary bankrupt was heard and granted, and In the Circuit Court of Milwaukee County proceedings were brought on behalf of the National Bank ot the Republic, a creditor ot the-asslgned Planklngton Bank, to have Hermann removed as receiver for the bank on the ground that he had misappropriated the funds and left tne country. These two actions will undoubtedly be the main ones out of which an almost endless litigation will grow, owing to the mixed state In which Hermann has left his affairs. Found Out After Many Tears. COSHOCTON. O, April JO. Charles Piatt, twice Postmaster of Flalnneld. and for 15 years Treasurer or Lynton Town .ship, was today sentenced to one year In the penitentiary ana nnea ... tor em bexxllng funds. CRY FOR LUMBER Contractors Can't Get Material. MILLS SHUT OFF SUPPLY Buildings Are Tied UpCar penters Out of Work. IS IT A BLOW AIMED AT UNIONS? Independent Contractors and Labor Leaders Say Yes Manager, of Samnlll Combine Bar Dally Output Goes to Orient. Three hundred carpenters an out ot work. One-half of all construction is de layed on account of scarcity ot lumber. It Is reported on good authority that mills win refuse to sell lumber to say contractor favoring labor unions. The Building Trades' Council last night passed a resolution charring the Master Builders' Association and saw mill men with forming a combine to 'Injure the building Industry. The em- plovers nr. challenged to debate the lasses of the strike at a mass meeting. limner, lumper, lumber, give us lumber," is the cry from all ever the city. Scarcely a contractor In town can procure a foot of building material from any of the mills running full blast, day and night. As a result of this condition two-thirds of the carpenters have been laid off. and by tomorrow evening it Is doubtful If 0 nammers will be at work. For the past three days the scarcity of lumber has everywhere been felt. By yesterday many buildings were forced to suspend construction. Carpenter work upon the weinhard bulldlnir has been at a stand still since Friday. The sawmill men and the manager of the agency throuith -which all Ihe retail huilnero Is conducted tay this .Is eaniVd by a tremendous export business, both. Dy ran ana try water. "The amount of lumber available for city retail trade has decreased 3 per cent within the past week. We hope that d- anoiner weeK at the rnrthent tne or ders now in hand from the outside will be filled and the local demand supplied.' said W. C Francis, manager of the City lletall Lumber Company, and secretary ot tne iast side Lumber company. All the material sold to the local trade goes through Mr. Francis office. Independent contractors and prominent union men tell another story. According to the statements of the men now de manding lumber in vain, the sawmills and the Master Builders' Association have joined forces -In an effort to break the growing power of the building trades unions. For a time all contractors are to be served alike. Then lumber Is to be quietly supplied, but not to those con tractors who refuse to fight the unions. For the present construction In Portland Is to be at a standstill. Spring and Summer are now being shown up as well as If he went to a J30.00 tailor. "I cannot say for certain that tho mills refuse to give me lumber because of my stand against the nonunion painters, but it looks very much that way." said Thomas Walker, the carpenter -contractor ot the Weinhard building. As long as lumber was supplied Mr. Walker he kept a full force of carpenters at work. The painting contractor of the structure tried to place nonunion pilnters upon the build ing, but as long as the union carpenters were at work this was not allowed. When the supply ot lumber ran short, how. ever, the carpenters were laid off. and nothing prevented the nonunion painters from working. Many of the sawmill and planing mill proprietors admit they expect trouble with their employers this year. There has been a preslstent rumor of Impend Ing strikes In the siwmllls for the past three months. The owner of a small East Side planing mill said early In Feb ruary that he fully expected trouble with his men this season. "We believe that the men will ask for an eight-hour day, together with a raise In wages of SO cents," said W. C Francis yesterday. "When the price of lumber goes beyond the consumer's reach we must call a halt. Yes, lumber is high now. to be sure, but It is on account of the Increase In wages, together with the scarcity in logs. Fifty cents additional to every man's wages means that the price of lumber must be advanced. If we lowered the length of our day to eight hours we could not meet the com petition of the mills of Gray's Harbor and Puget Sound, where the men work ten hours, the same as they are doing here at present." "Why Is it. Mr. Francis, that you can not supply the retail trade, or, as the union men say, will not sell lumber to the contractors herer 'It's because of the big export orders, especially the loading of ships upon which a demerit of $300 or H00 a day la charged If not loaded in time," said the manager of the City Retail Lumber Company. "Are the mills accumulating lumber in their yards to be prepared for a long strike Instead ot selling it to tne retail trader "No, they are not. All the lumber be ing cut is going outside the city, at least so much of it that little can be spared for local trade. During the month of Fehrutrr. Inman. Poulfen 4c CO. exported 10,000,000 feet of lumber. One of the mills ot Portland alone would be able to keep up the city trade If It did no exporting business." "What Is the dally cut of all the mills In Portland"" "Something over LWa.000 feet; not much more than that amount, 1 should say. "How soon do you hope to have the foreign orders out of the way so that local demand can be attended toT "Oh. within a few dtys, I think. It all depends upon the loading of the demerit ships. When they are out of the way we will be able to sell to the local men. Meanwhile each must wait bis turn. -Is It true that after a time you will sell only to the members of the Master Builders Association and will refuse to supply any of the contractors who are landing In with the unlonsr -Nothing of the kind;, there Is. not the least discrimination. My office is crowd ed all day with members of the associa tion as well as other contractors;, and they are. all wanting lumber. I tU every one who calls that be must wait his turn." Phillip Buefanec manager of the East ern & western Lumber Company, was asked as to. the truth of the-report that the mills .nave decided to aid the ' asso ciation contractors In their fight against the building trades unions. There's nothing In IV he said- -we have made no such agreement, and the lack of lumber for the city trade is .caused by export orders." The officers and prominent memnera ot the Master Builders' Association deny any agreement with the mill-owners" as to boycotting the independent contractors. Many Of the members of tne association are at present .haunting the office of the City Retail Lumber Company in com pany with contractors outside tne asso ciation. When the associations of the master painters and the master builders formed a working combination three, weeks ago. rumor was at once started that the owners of the city sawmills were about to be drawn into the combine, sou parties denied this emphatically. A ripple of curiosity was exotea a iew months ago when the Mechanics Invest ment Company was Incorporated. The stockholders are prominent men of the building trades unions. The avowed plan of the concern is to buy umDer jana. erect a sawmill and planlng-mlll and to manufacture and ship lumber to Portland. An option was secured on 1S0O acres ot timber land. Just where those interested have never been willing to ttu. The officers of the incorporation at dared that the scheme was started to forestall any attempt- of the mlllmen to combine with the contractors In an ef fort to employ nonunion men if they desired. Little has been, heard of the concern since its incorporation, but at this time, when such a combination is spoken of repeatedly, the fact that the union men admitted months ago the possi bility of such a thing is ot interest. MASS MEETTXG TO BE CALLED. Building; Trades Council Challenges Employers to Public Debate. That employers and employes may de bate the question of the scales of wages now hanging fire, a mass meeting will soon be called by the Building Trades Council. An Invitation has been extended to the members of the various employers' associations to attend. They are spe cially requested to present their side ot the question. The meeting Is not W bo one of union men entirely, but the plan of the Council Is to Induce the employers to take part In the discussion. The rank: and Me or the unions will not be, specially Invited. Higher wage scales have been prepared by several unions afflllat'd with, the Building Trades Council, and these the employers have refused to grant. At the mass meeting the union men are to state their side of the case, and the employers are to respond, or vice "Versa. A ball large enough' to accommodate all who wish to attend. will be secured. and the date ot the;rnf Anr will soon be announced. 'At the n-ifi'Cnrhi-dl last eve li try? the fobviring "resolutions In regard to the mass meeting' were adopted: 'Whereas, The Building Trades Council. of Portland, Or., deems It expedient to Inform the. public of the condition which prevails In this locality at the present time, owing to the fact that the contract ors and lumbering combines have con aplred to Injure the building Industry of this city by refusing to sell material to all contractors employing union labor. thereby' causing great financial loss to all branches of bulne: therefore, be It 'Resolved. That the Building Trades Council call a mass meeting and earnestly request the builders, lumbering and busi ness men of Portland to attend said meet Ing to have' the question debated from both standpoints. As we consider the question of vital Importance to every citi zen of the country: be It further Resolved, That the Council hereby challenge any and all associations ot mas ter contractors or combinations to a joint debate of tne question at issue." T.V. If. Safford, Jurist nnd Author, CHILLICOTHE. O.. April 20. W. H. Safford. aged S2. retired Jurist and author. died today. CONTEXTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. National Affairs. Charges pour In against postal offlclala. Page 2. Progress of work on the dredge Grant. Page Z. Salvador agrees to par arbitration award. Page 2. Domestic, Mbwourl boodle scandal grows and spreads. Page 3. Renewed strike in anthracite coal field. Page 12. Eight persons burned to death la railroad wreck. Page z. Victim of barret murder Identified. Page 3. Merger allowed to pay dividend. Page L Forelen. French Government driving oat monks. Pag 12. Terrible, anosrstorm In Germany. Paga 12. Famine kills thousands In China. Par 8 12 Sports. Drowns srlll arrive this morning. Pag 1L Professional golf match will be held on Warcr- ly links today. Page 1L Pacific Coast, Decisions of the Oregon Bute Supreme Court. Page 4. Arrangements for execution ot murderer at Penitentiary. Page L Marshal of Baker, field outlaw McKlcner'a sixth victim, u dead, page S. Benson convicted ot manslaughter. Page 4. Coos County Socialist opposed to the rsferen dum. Paga 1. Legging operations on Lewi. lUrer. Page S, Commercial and Marine, Advance la rice on small world's suoaly. Page IX. Unexpected decision In Securities case helps ' Armour lends support to Chicago wheat mar ket. Page IS. San Francisco market prices and comment. Page 13. Idaho crop report. Page 13. Crown of India reta crew from San Fran cisco. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Bunding construct ion tied up on account of scarcity of lumber. Page L Union men charge sawmill owners and mas ter builders with tormina- combine to ruin building Industry. Page L State Health Ofneer "Woods Hutchinson re port on smallpox conditions In Central Oregon. Page 14. Shortage of car mbarrae trade. Page It, Contraband goods sold at auction. Page 8. President Lrt. ot Columbia Southern, tars his line will build to Beed. Page 10. Burglars get scant returns on East Side. Page S. Transport .Qsabble will be renewed. Page -2. Uaca buslne on docket ot general passenger stents. Page 10. GETITS DIVIDEND Judge Sanborn Shows Mercy to Merger. LETS LOOSE $4,000,030 Suspends Injunction .in That One Particular, PENDING DECISION OF APPEAL Despite Opposition of Government, Plea ot Meraer Is Heard Total Amount It Will Release Is a 14,000,000. The mercer stockholders can get their May dividends. Judge Sanborn yesterday suspended the Injunction so far as It relates to the payment of dividends by the North ern Securities Company pending appeal. The amount ot the May dividends thus set free tor distribution la about 11.000,000 and the amount to be dls TTuned before the Supreme Court de cides the appeal s In November will be 114.000.000. The Northern Securities Company and other defendants yesterday filed the specifications of error on which they base their spptsL ST. PAUL, April 20. At noon today Judge Sanborn handed down his decision granting the request of the attorneys for the Northern Securities Company to be permitted to pay Great Northern and Northern Pacific dividends to the North era Securities Company. The defendants In the case have the dgbt under the act ot Congress to appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. They have claimed that right. Ordinarily those who have the right to review" judgment or decree of the Circuit Court also have the right, upon giving a proper lrid"tosniperde-the"aect-of tbeJudgi znent or decreet durlnc the pendency ot the appeal. But where, as In the .case at bar. the decree awards an Injunction. the ordinary supersedeas stays proceed lngs but does not raise the Injunction. The appeal has been perfected and the bond will be filed at once. The attorneys for the defendants presented their petition to Judge Sanborn on Friday, but United States District Attorney Haupt, under In structions from Attorney-General Knox. objected, and the case was set for argu ment today. A little over t4.O0O.00O vrlll be released for the May dividends, and nearly 314,000,009 would be paid out be fore a decision could be secured from the Supreme Court ot the United States. Further Instructions from Attorney-General Knox this morning were to the effect that he would continue to oppose the petition and not agree to any. suspension ot the decree. ' Areuraent Arrnlnst Suspenalon. Judge George B. Young appeared for the Northern Securities. Major Glover and C W. Bunn for the Northern Pacific. Dls trict Attorney Haupt appeared for the Government and opened the argument against the petition presented Friday by attorneys for the securities and railway companies. Under the provisions of the act for expediting such matters, all the Judges should sit, and he thought the action not one which could properly even in part be set aside. The Government has sought to prevent the violation ot law and that was what the decree en joined. The defendants were, he main, talned, asking the court to nullify the decree, to permit a violation of law. The decree was in accordance with public pol. Icy and really enjoined a nuisance. He cited cases .to sustain his contention that such, a suspension was not permissible ex, cept in a case where the damages could be estimated in dollars and cents, whereas this was purely a request to permit violation ot a statute. The fact of losses to stockholders was. be admitted, unfor tnnate, but since the corporation was violating law, there was nothing for the court to do but to see to the enforcement ot law. The petition was in reality request to suspend a statute, and not to suspend a decree. Flea for the Merger, Judgo Young for the Northern' Securl ties Company contended that the fact of an appeal to a higher court was of itself a sort of suspension of the decree and maintained that the requested payment ot the dividends would not in any way affect the general terms of the decree. This suspeneion of a small part of the decree would .not be a violation ot the law" to prevent a restraint of trade. The Injunc tion being obeyed would be Just as ef fective whether the dividend-paying be permitted or not. He maintained that the dividend injunction was practically ancil lary and did not come under the main In junction, which referred to the running of the railroads. No harm could result if the Northern Securities was permitted to distribute the dividends instead of hav ing the money accumulate in banks ot New York. He insisted the money would reach the same people ultimately and that to give it to them now would benefit them and harm no one else. C W. Bunn. general counsel for the Northern Pacific Railway, maintained the petition was not a suspension of a decree against a violation of law, but this was clearly a case In equity under the provis ions ot common law. He considered the request perfectly- fair and Just, but that the action In opposing it was unfair. Mr. Haupt repeated his contentions as to the violation of the statutes, arguing against the points presented by Judge Youns and Mr. Bunn. Opinion of the Court. ii announcing his decision. Judge San born said that to enable the courts to prevent unnecessary loss or Injury to the parties to litigation In such cases, the Supreme Court provided by rule S3 that when an appeal Is allowed from a final de cree granting an Injunction, a Judge who took part in the decision may make an order suspending the injunction during the pendency of the appeal upon such terms as to bond or otherwise as be may con sider proper for the security of the oppo site party. It Is the customary practice foe the courts to exercise this power 'whenever the action will not Injuriously affect the rights ot the party who has secured the Injunction. In this case that party is the United States. The main purpose and effect of the de cree are to prevent the Northern Securi ties Company from controlling and oper ating the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads, and to accomplish this end it enjoins that company from exer cising any control over their operation and from acquiring or voting any of the stock ot the railroad companies, and it also enjoins the railroad companies from paying the Northern Securities Company any dividends on their stock. This is not an application to suspend this injunction. The defendants ask only that the part ot the injunction which forbids the pay ment of, the dividends be suspended dur ing the pendency of the appeaL Merger Is Still Enjoined. Three dividends do not belong and can not In any event be paid to the United States. It does not claim to have and has not any pecuniary interest in thern. Its purpose In prosecuting this suit and its interest in this Injunction are only thereby to enforce the law against Illegal combinations In restraint ot trade and to prevent the Northern Securities Company from controlling, directing, owning, oper ating or interfering with competing rail road. Thta.lnUreet. it will be noticed, is protected by that portion of the Injunc tion which forbids the management or control ot these railroads by the North ern securities Company and forbids it from voting or acquiring any stock of these railroad companies. This portion of the Injunction. Indeed every part of the decree and this injunction, is in force and will continue In force during the pendency ot this appeal In any event. During this time the United States has and will have under this portion ot the decree, which will not be modified or suspended, a complete remedy for any vio lation, ot the Bberma'n anti-trust act. should It occur, both by proceedings for contempt -under this injunction and by proceedings under the penal clause of the Sherman anti-trust act. , The appeal in thlvcajje'KlU probably, be determined by the. Supreme Court about November, 1S03. It Is not perceived how the payment or the retention ot these dividends during the pendency, of this appeal can injuri ously affect any right of the' United States in this litigation, and the only question here Is whether these dividends shall be plied up In the treasuries of the rail way companies or paid to the stockhold- era. to whom they legally belong, and who must ultimately receive them, whatever the final .decision In this case may be. These dividends will ultimately go to the stockholders of the Northern Securities Company, whether paid as they are earned or after the' final decision. If the railroad companies are permitted to pay their dividends to the Securities Com- pany. that company will pay them over to Its stockholders. Order ot Suspension. The decree permits the stockholders of the Securities Company to exchange their stock for the stock of the railroad com panies for which It is Issued. If the Su preme Court affirms this decree, the stock holders of the Northern Securities Com pany can exchange their stock for the stock of the railroad companies and can draw these dividends from the latter. If the Supreme Court reverses the decree, the same parties can draw these dividends upon their Northern Securities stock. The retention of the dividends by the rail road companies, while the appeal pending, will not enhance or speed the enforcement of any legal right of the United States, while It might Inflict un necessary loss and Injury upon the stock holders who are Justly entitled to receive those dividends a soon as they are earned. The order of the court will accordingly be that the operation of that portion ot the decree which enjoins the railway com. ponies from paries e dividends upon their stock which Is held by the North ern Securities Company shall be suspend ed during the pendency "of the appeal upon the giving of an approved bond In the sum of JoO.000 by or In behalf of the de fendants, conditioned to prosecute their appeal with effect and to pay all damages which shall result to the United States by reason of this or der. That portion of the Injunction con tained in the final decree herein, which forbids the Northern Pacific Company and the Great Northern Company from pay ing dividends to the Northern Securities Company on account of stock in either railway company which the Securities Company claims to own and hold. Is sus pended during the pendency of the appeal allowed herein this day. All other por tions of the decree and of the Injunction it contains remain in force, and are un affected by this order. After reading of the decision the appeal was perfected and the bond was filed this afternoon. EFFECT OX STOCK MARKET, Stocks Shoot Up With the Xens-Hill Will Flsht to Flniah. NEW YORK. April . (Special.) There was Immense excitement on the curb when the decision ln the merger case at St Paul was announced. The price had dropped from 97 to 94H on very heavy selling, supposed to be for foreign account Baring. Magoun & Co. did most of this selling. The moment the decision reached Wall street stocks shot .up four points. Clark.. Dodge & Co. had orders from Hill to ' support the mirket If the de- (Concluded on Second Page.) ARENQT FRIENDS Wilson and Furth Are Political Rivals. BOTH YEARN FOR THE TOGA Wilson's Vain Efforts to Dis- - credit Furtlf. CAN'T KILL HIM POLITICALLY Emigrant From Spoknne Finds Sen atorial Ambition He Inspired la Dangerous to His Own Hopes Moore Seeks Dlatlnctlon. After havlnr Inspired Jacob Forth with a deitre ia be Senator. John I Wilson finds htm a dangerous rival and Is trying to kilt him politically. Wilson instigated the .Indictment of Furth by the grand Jury and tried to use the street-car strike to the lat ter" s disadvantage. In neither plan did he succeed, for the charge against Furth was so flimsy that the indictment was quashed and he still retains the good will of the working-men. SEATTLE. April SX (Special.) There is a growing coolness between the friends of Jacob Furth and John L. Wilson that is declared to extend to the two princi pals themselves. The trouble grows out of the recent grand Jury and the Influ ence of Wilson and his friends upon that body, it will be remembered that among oth ers the grand Jury Indicted Mr. Furth upon a trivial charge that fell to the ground as soon as the court received the document So tar as Furth's material Interests are concerned, he was unin jured, but the friends of the banker and street-car magnate fear he may have been damaged somewhat politically. Forth war a possibility daring .the last tfeaUtWia! contest, and there is reason to bellerevthat he Is yearning to be some thing more than a dark-horse candidate two' years hence. Should he, enter the fight he would do so with a full knowledge of the hard contest ahead of him and would be prepared to secure a loyal King County delegation, despite the fact that he might tread upon some other Se attle man's toes or Interfere with his am bitions. Wilson moved to Seattle from Spokani this year for the same purpose. He is anxious to go back to the Senate: as eager for that honor as he Is to de feat Senator Foster, whom he regards now as a political enemy. Wilson believed he could not make much of a fight from Spokme, since he could not control any, thing from a bunchgrass metropolis that he would not get were he to reside In another part of the state. Microbe Infects Furth. King County has never been friendly to Wilson, and he moved to this city for the. purpose of clearing away som of the local obstacles. He wanted to be on hand with his newspaper to en deavor to control, first the municipal pol itics and then the delegation that will be rent to the next Legislature. A united King County delegation of 23 members would go. a long way toward electing some one Senator and Wilson believed be could use the delegation. The ambitions of Wilson and Furth have clashed. Heretofore Furth has been a loyal supporter of Wilson, and It was only, when the latter was willing that he should do so that Furth allowed his name to go before the King County delegation', as a compromise candidate last Winter.. But when Wilson told Furth the story ot Senatorial possibilities he lnnoculated, the street-car magnate with the dangerous political microbe. Furth and his friends have been discussing him ever since as a candidate two years hence, something Wilson believed he made Impossible when he sent Furth In to talk to the King. County men about breaking from Preston. The grand jury was In session during the Legislature. It was Just after the settlement of the Senatorial fight that Wilson's friends organized their business men's club and endeavored to dictate la the grand Jury through special counsel. The scheme was more or less successful, since it resulted In the indictment of some of the Wilson political enemies, but It did not result in the production of any serious charge against them. Scheme to Discredit Furth. Wilson bad a particular friend upon the grand Jury who had been working with him politically and was in close touch with Wilson's newspaper. It was generally known to politicians that Wil son kept in touch with the grand Jury by this means. He knew everything that transpired, and bad he any Interests to guard, they were protected. It may be a mere coincidence, but it that is all there is -to it the coincidence does not seem, insignificant to Furth's friends, for it was' Wilson's "man" with the grand jury who pushed the case against Furth. He It was who insisted upon an Investigation of all the charges of bribery In connection with street-car franchises, and finally succeeded In in dicting Furth for collusion In securing a franchise, 'Knowing of the close relationship that existed between Wilson and Furth's per secutor, the friends of the street-car mag nate believe that the indictment was. In- Concluded on Page &.) 1